[2010.12.30] A few important notices :)

Dedicated Mao Fan Posts: 994 Join date: 2007-09-22 Age: 27

Hello, fellow Mao fans!

Like a Star @ heaven

I received a notification from Forumotion that due to the forum's high activity, we might be able to receive a free forum domain.

That would mean that instead of the current address "maoasada.logu2.com" we could choose a shorter, top-level domain. Sadly, "maoasada.com", "maoasada.net" and "maoasada.org" are taken. Only "maoasada.biz" is free, but that sounds too... business-y for my ear.

Any ideas?

maoasadaforum, maoforum, ballerinaonice, maofans...

Hopefully after the name change "maoasada.logu2.com" will redirect to our forum for some time. Just in case, if I go ahead with the name change, I'll send an email to all the members with the information about the new official address.

So make sure your e-mail addresses listed in your profile are not out of date!

Like a Star @ heaven

Donations

http://www.maoasadaforum.com/donate

As some of you probably noticed, I removed the advertisements displayed on the forum for the registered members. Sadly, this is a paid operation, and the poor world standing of Polish zloty makes paying for anything a rather costly operation for me. Sweatdrop

If it wasn't for that, I could remove the ads for both our members and the unregistered guests for a longer period of time, activate the gallery, etc..

Thus, I decided to take a leaf out of Yunaforum.com and activate the donation option. If you have a monetary equivalent of a cheap McDonalds dinner to spare Laugh

, please consider sharing! The money donated is going directly to Forumotion.com and none of our admins can use it for any other purpose except for paying for revoving the ads / activating the gallery / paying for more space for avatars and smileys, etc.. Depending on your location, you can use either PayPal (a better option, if you have an account) or your phone (a worse option, because you can't specify the amount of money donated; but perhaps the only choice for those who don't have a PayPal account).

4-5 donations could be enough to have us going advertisements-free for a year. Wink

Of course, the forum is and will remain completely free!

The donations are completely voluntary for those fans who have some Monies

to spare and would like to see the forum working faster and without the annoying advertisements at the top.

Like a Star @ heaven

Logo help

To celebrate Mao's wonderful performance of "Liebenstraum" at Japanese Nationals, I created a lavender "Liebenstraum" theme that will be uploaded in a week or so. Sadly, I'm still missing the logo. I just can't seem to find a nice photo of Mao in her "Liebenstraum" dress. If I find a photo/screencap that I like, it's in too low quality to use as a logo.
If any of you have a nice HQ photo from Mao's Liebenstraum program (preferably in the new dress), please share! I love you

New Admins

As I mentioned in the Happy New Year thread, I decided to appoint two new admins to take care of the forum in case the current admins went AWOL again Sweatdrop

.

The new admins are:

☆Genie

inskate

Once again, thanks to the moderators for taking care of the forum while I was away! Worship

Posts: 919 Join date: 2010-08-10 Location: denmark

what about changing the current address to maoasadaforum, it much easier.... hmm how much money would you think would be good amount for donation?

Posts: 473 Join date: 2010-09-14 Age: 23 Location: Poland

Okami wrote:

As some of you probably noticed, I removed the advertisements displayed on the forum for the registered members. Sadly, this is a paid operation, and the poor world standing of Polish zloty makes paying for anything a rather costly operation for me.

Polish złoty? scratch

Greetings from Silesia Happy dance

I love all changes here!! Pictures and new graphic are gorgeous! Wub

About domain:

Maybe asadamaochan.com?

ballerinamao wrote:

how much money would you think would be good amount for donation?

I'm also curious about that Wink

Dedicated Mao Fan Posts: 994 Join date: 2007-09-22 Age: 27

ballerinamao wrote:

what about changing the current address to maoasadaforum, it much easier...

That's what I'm planning to do, I'm just waiting for the other fans' suggestions. "maoasadaforum.com" would be nice. "maoforum.com" is available as well (and shorter Laugh

).

BTW I checked the forumotion.com support forum and it says that even when a new domain is activated, the old one still works so there's no danger that some fans who miss this notice will not be able to find the forum after the domain's changed.

Quote:

hmm how much money would you think would be good amount for donation?

Any amount is fine! Smile

I think that is you use PayPal the lowest possible donation is 1 Euro (not sure about the non-european countries, I think the only way to know is just to click the link, then chose the PayPal option and there should be a notice about the lowest possible donation for your country. To check the option you don't need to give your PayPal details or anything.).

If you pay by the phone, sadly, I don't think there's an option to chose, there's just one. For people from Poland its 6.10 PLN. I think it's ~1,80 Euros for people from Europe, which gives the forum 100 points. (Again, just checking the options is free.)

For example: if 10 people donated 1.80 Euro or its equivalent, it would be enough to keep the forum going without adds for half a year (or a whole year for the registered members if we let the guests suffer the ads Hell, no!

).

If there would be any points left, it could be spent on activating the gallery (100 points = 100MB of storage space, right now we have barely enough to host the avatars).

europeanfan wrote:

Greetings from Silesia Happy dance

Greetings from Lubelszczyzna! flower

Posts: 1096 Join date: 2009-04-17 Age: 28 Location: Brazil

maoasadaforum.com is great.

I'll check the donations options. I hate those ads Mad

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Subject: Re: [2010.12.30] A few important notices :) Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:01 pm

alyssa wrote:

maoasadaforum.com is great.

I really like this one, too! cat

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alyssa wrote:

maoasadaforum.com is great.

Yeah, I think so too.
And I really hope I could do something to help or donate. I don't even have a Paypal account. Escape

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Posts: 473 Join date: 2010-09-14 Age: 23 Location: Poland

Okami wrote:

If you pay by the phone, sadly, I don't think there's an option to chose, there's just one. For people from Poland its 6.10 PLN. I think it's ~1,80 Euros for people from Europe, which gives the forum 100 points. (Again, just checking the options is free.)

I don't have a paypal account, so I'd rather pay by the phone (or maybe if we are both from Poland I can transfer you money in złoty on your bank account?) but still I don't know how to do it. Is there some special number (like 7***), on which I'm supposed to send sms?

Dedicated Mao Fan Posts: 994 Join date: 2007-09-22 Age: 27

europeanfan wrote:

I don't have a paypal account, so I'd rather pay by the phone (or maybe if we are both from Poland I can transfer you money in złoty on your bank account?) but still I don't know how to do it. Is there some special number (like 7***), on which I'm supposed to send sms?

Yes

If you go to the Contribution page (http://www.maoasadaforum.com/donate - it's linked on the bottom of the forum), you'll find the Allopass option. After you click on it, you should be able to se a pop-up window like this:

(I blurred the number for security reasons. I'm not sure if the number's the same for every person, so I don't want somebody to send a message on the wrong number by accident Laugh

)

It should automatically detect your country (if not, just choose Poland from the drop down menu) and give you the number you need to send the SMS to. After you send the SMS, you'll get a message with a code sent to your phone. Type it in the "CODE" field and click "OK". The points will be assigned directly to our forum. Smile

Sending the donation via bank account to me would be also fine, but the SMS option is faster (and I tried it yesterday, so I know it works Smile

). But if you have any problems with Allopass, just send me a PM. Smile

And oops, they misspelled "otrzymać". Sweatdrop

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Tks, I checked the donation options to see how much it would cost for me, but there is no Brazil option Neutral

I think Maoasadaforum.com is great cheers

Posts: 1096 Join date: 2009-04-17 Age: 28 Location: Brazil

Dani-Chan wrote:

Tks, I checked the donation options to see how much it would cost for me, but there is no Brazil option Neutral

I'm used to it. Rolling Eyes

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It looks so beautiful!!! Exciting new changes sunny

Dedicated Mao Fan Posts: 994 Join date: 2007-09-22 Age: 27

Since it seemed to be the most popular option, I decided to claim the maoasadaforum.com domain before someone else snatched it away... And it just got assigned to our forum! Wow, that was fast. I expected it to take 5 days or so. Big thanks to Forumotion for handling the domain change so quickly - and of course for giving us a free domain. Cheering

You can now access the forum using the new address and/or update your bookmarks.

(The old address will continue to work - but the new one is cooler. Cool

)

Now I need to change the logo. Sweatdrop

Big thanks to all of you who have made a donation! Daisies for you

We have 500 credits so far, great! Happy dance

Subject: Re: [2010.12.30] A few important notices :) Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:36 pm

Thanks Okami, for all the awesome changes!!! Happy dance

A new domain!! Wow! cheers

If we have credits left over, is it possible to expand the sizes of the messaging mailboxes? Very Happy

I'm almost out of space and I'd hate to delete some of those messages.... Sweatdrop

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alyssa wrote:

Dani-Chan wrote:

Tks, I checked the donation options to see how much it would cost for me, but there is no Brazil option Neutral

I'm used to it. Rolling Eyes

I don't have a paypal account either Snow

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